Prince killed in Spain

November 20, 1936 

 Prince Alonso of Bourbon-Orleans was killed today "in a forced landing of an Insurgent plane near Madrid." 

 The prince, a nephew of Queen Marie of Roumania, left London on October 31 with his older brother, Alvaro, "announcing they were going on a holiday in Lisbon. 

The prince's mother, Infanta Beatriz, "was prostrated in a London hotel by the news of her son's death." Alonso's father, Alfonso, a first cousin of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, is in the United States. When they left London, Prince Alvaro was asked if he and his brother planned to join the insurgent troops. "My family and I will fight communism wherever we may happen to be," Prince Alvaro said at the time.

 Infanta Beatriz is a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and is a British princess by birth.